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your gentle and feminine fosterage

NOTES

your gentle and feminine fosterage

This addition to the text seems motivated by a wish to make Margaret Saville a less shadowy presence behind it. The implicit suggestion is that she is sufficiently older than her brother to have cared for him when they were orphaned, though, considering the twin facts that she has children in her own family and Robert is now 28 years old, we must assume that the difference in age would amount to something like a decade (III:WC:11). The added phrase also emphasizes the role of feminine nurturer assumed by all the prominent women of the novel.